“I once had three Porsches – I sold them all so I could snort up half of Peru”: Inside the drug-fuelled world of Aerosmith in the ’70s
Back in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, drugs were part and parcel of the rock and roll lifestyle. Many of the biggest bands at the time indulged in hard substances, and in many cases they defined their sound during this era.
For example, when the Eagles and Black Sabbath recorded their respective albums Hotel California and Technical Ecstasy in adjacent studios at Miami’s Criteria Studios in the ‘70s, Tony Iommi and co found the console used by the Eagles clogged with cocaine.
Indeed, the Eagles were known for their rock and roll excess, and were routinely barred from hotels for their antics.
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Aerosmith were another band known for their affinity for hard drugs, and in a newly resurfaced interview in the new issue of Classic Rock, Steven Tyler lifts the lid on some of the band’s drug-fuelled antics.
“We never knew enough to stop touring,” Tyler said. “We just stayed on the road, and our vacation was in a little gram bottle… We spent the whole of the ‘70s on a treadmill. It was never like there was a tour. We’d stay on the road for a year and a half. The only time we’d come off was to record an album.”
Back in those days, drugs were very much part of a rockstar’s image. “I once had three Porsches, and I sold them all so I could snort up half of Peru,” Tyler is quoted as saying. “I would have traded my nuts for a good ounce of heroin in those days!”
He continued: “Drugs are fun. Once you’ve tried them you love them so much it turns bad on you.”
Last year, Beatles man Paul McCartney reflected on the legendary drugs bust that landed him in a Japanese prison. “This stuff was too good to flush down the toilet!” he said.
“It was the maddest thing [I’d done] in my life – to go into Japan, which has a seven-year hard-labour penalty for pot, and be so free and easy,” he recalled in horror.
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